Easy Strawberry Lemon Dessert
With only 5 ingredients, this easy strawberry lemon dessert will quickly become a summertime go-to recipe. You can easily substitute other berries for the strawberries and if you want to serve this all year round, simply choose frozen berries.
The presentation is adorable and since it's packed in individual jars, these make great portable desserts for a party.
Ingredients
- 8 oz pkg light cream cheese softened
- ¼ C powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 1 pack graham crackers
- 1- pint strawberries
- Lemon Pie Filling/Topping
Instructions
Prep:
- Beat cream cheese, vanilla, and powdered sugar for about 1 minute.
- Crush graham crackers into small pieces.
- Wash, dry and cut strawberries.
- Open can of lemon pie filling.
Putting it together:
- Sprinkle in a layer of crushed graham crackers.
- Add a few tablespoons of lemon pie filling.
- Sprinkle more graham crackers.
- Spoon in the cream cheese mixture and use the back of the spoon to spread.
- Add strawberries.
Notes
You can put graham crackers in a plastic baggie and use a rolling pin to crush, or if you don’t have a plastic baggie, you can simply keep the graham crackers in the package, unopened, and gently hit with a mallet until crushed. Be careful though, the sides may open, so do it slowly, a little at a time. If you want the graham crackers fine, you can put into a food processor and pulse for a few seconds.
Use vanilla extract in place of vanilla bean paste if you don’t have it.
If you would like to make for more people, just keep the same amount of strawberries pie filling and graham crackers, but put less in each cup, and double or triple the cream cheese mixture.
Nutrition
Calories: 588kcalCarbohydrates: 83gProtein: 14gFat: 23gSaturated Fat: 11gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 61mgSodium: 746mgPotassium: 733mgFiber: 6gSugar: 46gVitamin A: 654IUVitamin C: 139mgCalcium: 246mgIron: 3mg
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